M4.cn is a Chinese website that describes itself as "youth thought portal". It's a new incarnation of Anti-CNN.com, which became famous in 2008 by pointing out inaccuracies and biases in the foreign media reports about the unrest in Tibet in 2008.

Today, M4.cn published a story and video showing U.S. Ambassador Jon Huntsman Jr. at Wangfujing on Sunday afternoon, when the "jasmine protests" were supposed to take place. The video was also posted to Youtube (see above).

The story and video insinuate that the U.S. and Huntsman's hand may be behind calls for protest in China.

The U.S. "Embassy spokesman Richard Buangan told AFP he was on a "family outing" and his presence was "purely coincidental".

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Comments on Chinese website goes after U.S. Amb. Huntsman for "cheerleading" protests

I'm pretty sure that's his adopted daughter next to him. I'm pretty sure he came wearing an American flag patch and with his daughter to incite revolution. I swear to god Chinese people's paranoia makes me so crazy I wish I had never gotten involved with this country.

So the implication is that the Chinese security services are so bizarrely incompetent that they couldn't prevent this man from inciting these protests, or perhaps he attracted them using the awesome magnetic power of his mind. Wow, you got him there!

I didn't say his presence was purely coincidence, I said he was an onlooker, possibly alerted by the US embassy. That's what diplomats do. Does that count as "cheerleading" for the paranoid nationalists out there?